Arcturus -- Nan Madol -- Lion -- At the crossroads -- I came from Yonder Mountain -- The fisherman from Chihuahua -- The beau monde of Mrs. Bridge -- Mademoiselle from Kansas City -- Leon & Bâebert -- A cottage near Twin Falls -- The giant -- The trellis -- The mountains of Guatemala -- The undersigned, Leon & Bâebert -- Octopus, the sausalito quarterly of mew writing, art & ideas -- Bowen -- Hooker -- The succubus -- On the Via Margutta -- End of summer -- The short happy life of Henrietta -- Madame Broulard -- The voyeur -- Au Lapin Gros -- The corset -- The flat-footed tiger -- Bâebert's nephew -- The promotion -- Saint Augustine's pigeon -- Noah's ark -- Mrs. Proctor Bemis -- Cantinflas and the cop -- Valentine's Day -- The scriptwriter -- Filbert's wife -- The most beautiful -- The suicide -- Acedia -- The Caribbean provedor -- The walls of âAvila -- The color of the world -- Death and the wife of John Henry -- I'll take you to Tennessee -- The anatomy lesson -- Cocoa party -- Neil Dortu -- Puig's wife -- Crash landing -- A cross to bear -- The marine -- The yellow raft -- Leon & Bâebert Aloft -- Otto and the magi -- The Cuban missile crisis -- The palace of the Moorish kings

Fifty-six stories, some new, some republished. In Corset, a wife does headstands in the nude to excite her husband, in Au Lapin Gros, a man falls for a woman's big feet, and A Cottage Near Twin Falls is on a boring cocktail party

Arcturus -- Nan Madol -- Lion -- At the crossroads -- I came from Yonder Mountain -- The fisherman from Chihuahua -- The beau monde of Mrs. Bridge -- Mademoiselle from Kansas City -- Leon & Bébert -- A cottage near Twin Falls -- The giant -- The trellis -- The mountains of Guatemala -- The undersigned, Leon & Bébert -- Octopus, the sausalito quarterly of mew writing, art & ideas -- Bowen -- Hooker -- The succubus -- On the Via Margutta -- End of summer -- The short happy life of Henrietta -- Madame Broulard -- The voyeur -- Au Lapin Gros -- The corset -- The flat-footed tiger -- Bébert's nephew -- The promotion -- Saint Augustine's pigeon -- Noah's ark -- Mrs. Proctor Bemis -- Cantinflas and the cop -- Valentine's Day -- The scriptwriter -- Filbert's wife -- The most beautiful -- The suicide -- Acedia -- The Caribbean provedor -- The walls of Ávila -- The color of the world -- Death and the wife of John Henry -- I'll take you to Tennessee -- The anatomy lesson -- Cocoa party -- Neil Dortu -- Puig's wife -- Crash landing -- A cross to bear -- The marine -- The yellow raft -- Leon & Bébert Aloft -- Otto and the magi -- The Cuban missile crisis -- The palace of the Moorish kings

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